The SPIRIT project will take a novel approach in the development, testing, training and evaluation of a new scalable privacy preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities system prototype.

Expected results

The SPIRIT project will deliver a set of tools for the acquisition, analysis, modelling and visualisation of multimodal, multilingual and multimedia data (text, audio, video, image contents from closed and open sources, including the surface web, the deep web / dark nets and online social networks). The result is a platform that allows to create social graphs of heterogeneous named-entity relationships and to perform social and criminal network analysis on those graphs.

Pilot Prototyping

Pilot Prototyping

About SPIRIT

The SPIRIT project will take a novel approach in the development, testing, training and evaluation of a new scalable privacy preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities system prototype.

SPIRIT will start the initial development phase focussing on the use cases provided by the End User Partners wrapped in the privacy by design blanket to establish an early prototype that will be installed in each of the End User Partners’ offices. The system will utilise anonymised data sets combined with developed functionality to trawl through open source data securely behind each partner Forces’ firewall and security systems.

Objectives

Semantic Social Graph Construction - To enable users to collate and analyse data content and relationships through a single semantic representation.

Scalable Graph Infrastructure - To design and develop a secure and scalable processing architecture that is compatible with the requirements of visual, analytical and dynamic user interaction and analysis.

Sense-Making Workspace - To provide the capabilities to search and reason over the Social Graph, and collaboratively resolve, structure and explain evidence based on the socio-cultural and organisational constructs of identity that are crucial for understanding the modern uses of identity and their use in planning and conducting criminal activities.

Comprehensive Training Infrastructure - Provide users with training content in several different forms, enabling them to use the SPIRIT framework effectively.

Compliance with EU regulations and Fair Information Practice Principles - To ensure compliance of SPIRIT not only with EU regulations to protect privacy and citizens’ rights but with Fair Information Practice principles (FIP), improving the available methodology to carry out legal and ethical monitoring and audits through Compliance by Design (CbD).

End User Validation – To ensure that SPIRIT meets the requirements it will be validated by the End User community.